An infallible characteristick of meanness is cruelty.
One instance of his absence and particularity, as it is characteristick of the man, may be worth relating.
On this occasion he mentioned a circumstance as characteristick of the Scotch.
As it is, our judgement must be biassed by that characteristick specimen which Sir John Hawkins has given us: 'Poor Thrale!
This may be laughed at as too trifling to record; but it is a small characteristick trait in the Flemish picture which I give of my friend, and in which, therefore I mark the most minute particulars.
This may be laughed at as too trifling to record; but it is a small characteristick trait in the Flemish picture which I give of my friend, and in which, therefore, I mark the most minute particulars.
The characteristick of our own government at present is imbecility.
A literary lady has favoured me with a characteristick anecdote of Richardson.
But there are men who seem to think nothing so much the characteristick of a genius, as to do common things in an uncommon manner; like Hudibras, to tell the clock by algebra; or like the lady in Dr.
If generous Honesty, Valour, and plain Dealing, be the Cognisance of thy Family or Characteristick of thy Country, hold fast such inclinations suckt in with thy first Breath, and which lay in the Cradle with thee.
What pleasure would it have given us, to have known their petty habits, their characteristick manners, their modes of composition, and their genuine opinion of preceding writers and of their contemporaries!
I shall mention but one characteristick circumstance.
Nor do we meet with one instance of cowardice, or ill-behaviour amongst the men, but rather of intrepidity even to rashness, which used to be the characteristick of the British nation.
The Characteristick of a Sailor is the blunt honest Tar.
He has enriched his edition with a concise account of each play, and of its characteristick excellence.
It is characteristick of the founder; but the animus aequus is, alas!
It is characteristick of the latter's new-found consideration that his first action was to warn them with a gesture of Phyllida's presence fast asleep inside.
Courage and Intrepidity always were, and ever will be the grand Characteristick of a Man of Honour: It is this Part of the Character only, which it is always in our Power to demonstrate.
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